Press Release 06.07.18
Pillsbury Advises on $800 Million Sale of JXTG Energy’s Biotech Units
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Jennie is a litigator you want on your side.
Jennie La Prade, a Los Angeles-based Pillsbury Litigation partner, prosecutes, defends and negotiates complex business disputes for a global clientele.
Jennie litigates commercial, real estate and financial institution disputes, representing clients through discovery, trial and appeal in federal and state courts, and resolves disputes through ADR. She has counseled creditors in problem loan situations and bankruptcy proceedings, and defended banks and corporations in contract and tort cases. Additionally, Jennie defends and asserts a full spectrum of intellectual property-related matters, and litigates employment claims involving breach of contract, discrimination, harassment, and wage and hour class actions.
Representative Experience
- Served as lead trial counsel for a petroleum company, successfully resolved a multimillion-dollar dispute with two other oil and gas companies concerning a pipeline.
- Represented a foreign financial institution as lead trial counsel in a global dispute over certain trademarks, and obtained successful resolution during opposition proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.
- Served as lead trial counsel for a financial institution, successfully resolving a multimillion-dollar dispute with a software vendor over failure to provide required banking software.
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- Commercial Litigation and Creditors’ Rights
- Represents creditors in problem loan situations involving workouts and/or litigation, including actions seeking receiverships, writs of attachment, writs of possession and TROs.
- Defends corporations against contract and business tort cases, and prosecutes such claims on their behalf. In particular, defends banks against claims stemming from fraudulent or forged negotiable instruments, letters of credit, checks, etc.
- Represents creditors in bankruptcy proceedings, including relief from stay proceedings, cash collateral disputes, executory contract disputes, administrative claims proceedings, adversary proceedings, and preference and fraudulent conveyance actions.
- Intellectual Property Litigation
- Prosecutes and defends against claims of patent infringement, copyright, trademark and service mark infringement, misappropriation of trade secrets, unfair competition, false designation of origin, breach of implied contract and breach of confidence.
- Prosecutes and defends against various IP and business tort claims involving greeting cards, computer software, video games, video music and various mechanical devices, among other things.
- Media Litigation
- Represents a variety of media outlets in cases involving defamation and invasion of the right of privacy, including leading television, film, music and publishing companies.
- Employment Litigation
- Represents management in cases filed by employees alleging breach of contract, discrimination, sexual harassment, wrongful discharge and related torts.
Professional Highlights
- Served as a faculty member for annual litigation training programs sponsored by Pillsbury and the National Institute for Trial Advocacy.
- Board member of the Federal Bar Association, Los Angeles chapter.
- Serves as a settlement attorney in the federal court pro bono mediation program.
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Associations
- Served as co-chair and as chair of the Pillsbury’s Women Attorneys Network for more than seven years.
- American Bar Association, Litigation Section, Committee on Commercial and Banking Litigation
- Los Angeles County Bar Association and State Bar of California, Litigation Sections
- Women Lawyers’ Association of Los Angeles
- Served as a lecturer in the Lorman Education Services Program on Enforcing Commercial Real Estate Loans in California
Education
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J.D., University of Southern California Gould School of Law, 1978
Notes and Articles Editor, Southern California Law ReviewB.A., University of California, Berkeley, 1975
with honors
Admissions
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California
Courts
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U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California